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After seeking that missing piece to get them back to the Super Bowl every offseason since 2006, the Bears finally tore their roster down. That's why when coach John Fox and general manager Ryan Pace emerged from behind a backdrop Wednesday in the Perry Center at Olivet Nazarene University to talk about the opening of the team's 14th training camp here, it was impossible to pin them down on expectations. No one knows quite what to make of these Bears, the ones that finally fell apart last season in sinking to 5-11, the club's worst finish since posting the same record in 2004 with the three-headed quarterback monster of Jonathan Quinn, Craig Krenzel and Chad Hutchinson. ...

NFL training camps open this week, and questions abound.
Who will start the season as New England's quarterback? Have aging stars who have switched teams improved their odds of winning a Super Bowl? Which franchises are on the rise, and which are on...

For the second time in less than three years, former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb has been arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol.
The former Philadelphia Eagles star was arrested in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert on...

The draft will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Chicago. Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines team needs by division. Today, in the last of four parts, the West divisions:AFC West
Protecting Peyton Manning is paramount, so the Denver Broncos...

The NFL draft will be held Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Chicago. Times NFL writer Sam Farmer examines team needs by division. Today, the East divisions:
NFC East
The New York Giants need to do a better job of protecting quarterback Eli Manning, so...

Wednesday marks the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln's death, the result of his being shot while attending a play at Ford's Theater in Washington D.C.
Poor Lawrence Gobright, rest his soul, is still taking grief for it.
Gobright was the Associated...

The Southwestern setting at the Arizona Biltmore was casual, but the billionaires and multimillionaires weren't — most dressed in coats and ties for three days of closed-door sessions.
The 32 NFL owners were getting serious about an issue the league...

Former NFL kicker Lawrence Tynes filed a lawsuit against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday, claiming in a press release the team created conditions that led to him contracting an infection that ended his career.
Tynes, who last...

Jim Harbaugh is getting paid quite handsomely to coach Michigan's football team -- $5 million a year with the chance to make a lot more in bonuses and incentives.
Obviously the university thinks he's worth it. Not only did Harbaugh go to three NFC...

After just one NFL season, San Francisco linebacker Chris Borland, who looked like the future of the 49ers' defense, will retire out of concerns about the long-term effects of brain injuries.
Borland, 24, revealed his surprising decision Monday...

On a day when the NFL's free agents were officially allowed to test the market, it was a different kind of "Let's Make a Deal" that stole the spotlight.
It was a dizzying flurry of trades Tuesday that refashioned pro football's landscape,...

Colin Kaepernick may be the next 49ers star on his way out of San Francisco.
Houston-based NFL reporter Jayson Braddock tweeted Sunday night that Kaepernick is "on the trading block" and that the 49ers are "taking offers" for...

Looks like Brandon Bostick won't get a chance to make up for his major gaffe during the NFC championship game.
And that Green Bay's lasting impression of him will be the football -- along with the Packers' Super Bowl aspirations -- slipping through his...

Once they can finally stomach going back and looking at Super Bowl XLIX, the despondent Seattle Seahawks might take a bit of comfort in this:
Their loss to New England was written in the stars.
Turns out, the NFC side of the postseason consisted of...

Seattle cornerback Richard Sherman needs Tommy John surgery on his left elbow, Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll announced Monday through the team's Twitter feed.
Sherman tore his ulnar collateral ligament on a fluke play with teammate Kam Chancellor...

Forget deflated footballs, the New England Patriots took the air out of an entire fan base Sunday night.
They clinched their first Super Bowl victory in a decade by beating Seattle, 28-24, the air hissing out of University of Phoenix Stadium, a place...

Never mind the sophisticated schemes or individual player matchups, the NFL’s Coach of the Year – someone who knows the Seattle Seahawks especially well – thinks Super Bowl XLIX will come down to the most fundamental of football skills.
“It’s going to...

Football pumps will cringe in fear. Ragged hoodies will run and hide. "Cheaters" can start making plans for an Emmy.
I hate writing this as much as I hate Tom Brady's smug grin under that silly ski cap, but I have no choice.
Super Bowl XLIX...

Marshawn Lynch hasn't said much of anything this week, but by Sunday night, when the confetti has settled on Super Bowl XLIX, the Seattle running back will have made a significant statement.
That's what his grandfather thinks, at least.
"I think...